Major phone companies have been keeping your information. Things like calls, texts, browsing history, and places you have been. They keep these for long amounts of time.
Verizon:
Keeps location of use for a year
Will keep information on certain phones and certain websites for a year
Content of Texts for 3-5 days
AT&T
Kept everything they have kept since 200
Will keep who sent texts to who without content for up to 7 years
There are even more companies with different rates of how they keep things. Personally, I think they are wasting money doing this, because each file is a few kb of information. Get about 1024 kb and you make a mega-byte. 1024 mega-bytes make a giga-byte which goes on to terra-bytes and farther. Eventually it will get to the point that they have too much information to store. There is actually a good part about it. It helps with criminal and national security investigations, and with missing people.
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Interesting topic!